Recreating .cronaids files

[Joseph C. Denman]

Hi Everyone!!

I have two systems (L2000) that the crons seem to stop periodically. I have to restart the crons to get them going. After further research, I have mail stating no audit id. After searches through the forum, I see that that has to do with the files in the .cronaids directory. I checked, and there are no files in the directory on these two systems. I check other systems, and the files are there??? Questions are, how can I recreate these files, and how could the files have been removed? Also, would this cause my periodic cron halting? I do not think anyone manually removed the files.

Thanks,

...jcd...

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Hi

Chech out patching, PHCO_28980 mentions it - also look for later patch.

Paula

[Steven E. Protter]

Happened to me.
http://search.hp.com/redirect.html?url=http%3A//forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do%3FthreadId%3D83954&qt=.cronaids+%2Baudit+%2Bid&hit=1

http://search.hp.com/redirect.html?url=http%3A//forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do%3FthreadId%3D136208&qt=.cronaids+%2Baudit+%2Bid&hit=3

If I were at work, i'd post the procedure I used. I'm not.

* putting my hand on my head.

I see all. You recently converted your system to trusted mode. Surely the system is trusted.

Somewhere, deep in my search and past posts is an exact solution.

Also, with regards to the deletes, I'd start tracing cron jobs, see if you have something sweeping old files away periodically with a little bit too broad of a brush.

SEP

[Steven E. Protter]

Better thread:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=246392

My itrc search.
http://us-support2.external.hp.com/emse/bin/doc.pl/emse/bin/doc.pl/distrib_redir=1+1080926747|*?rn=25&source=7000&searchcategory=ALL&from=forums&hpl=1&todo=search&origin=0&wpa=forums1.itrc.hp.com%3A80&searchcriteria=allwords&submit.x=6&submit.y=3&esc=us.support.itrc.hp.com&searchtext=.cronaids++audit+id&chkServStor=on&presort=rank

SEP

[Joseph C. Denman]

Can you run tsconvert if the system is already trusted, or do you recommend unconverting it and converting back??? I really don't want to break anything.

Thanks,
...jcd...

[Robert-Jan Goossens · Accepted solution]

Hi jdc,

Yes you can.

Check this doc,

Document description: Cron: Job did not contain a valid audit ID. See system administr
Document id: KBRC00000811

http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000063235497

Run tsconvert -p
This will build a file /usr/spool/cron/.cronaids with the data
the system needs

/sbin/init.d/cron stop
/sbin/init.d/cron start

Hope this helps,
Robert-Jan